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On Time

I was gifted a Fitbit Smartwatch for Christmas, mostly as a tool for marathon training. I have no complaints with the little bit of tech. It's got great battery life, tracks steps and time, and is mostly reliable at buzzing my wrists with notifications from my phone, email, slack and

What's in a name?

The domain I've owned for over a decade (daydalus.net) expired and was snatched up some Chinese company that manufactures industrial welding robots. If I was clever and had a bit more time, perhaps I could have played it off as intentional, viral marketing for some science fiction work in

Dead Phone

My phone died the other day. I was mindlessly tapping and swiping through something - (instagrammed photos of distant mountaintops?  some mindless action rpg?  snarky comment threads on hacker news?) - when the screen went black.  The home button was lifeless.  A few seconds later, it started up, a glowing

Migration

I decided to migrate my blog from wordpress to ghost [https://ghost.org/]. Its been a few years since I've actually written in my blog, but I've seen various mentions of the ghost platform.  I wanted to try it out, but the shelf life of open source software is about

PiBot

I’ve had a raspberry pi gathering dust for a few years, but I had an inkling to do something cool with it. Over the holidays, I was gifted a PiStorms kit. PiStorms is a “shield” for the raspberry pi that fits directly onto a set of pins and interfaces

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